Word: pad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired of anonymity, waning Peer Status and unspoken resentment, square your shoulders and come to 14 Plympton Street at 7:30 tonight. The firing of The Crime's celebrated Spring Competition, an unusually short one this year, gives you a chance to get off the launching pad for a successful breakthrough...
...evening's end Peter Orlovsky was in tears because his chum Ginsberg was getting so much attention. Gently, Ginsberg and Corso took Orlovsky back to their borrowed apartment, put him to sleep-or more properly, down on his pad. Then Ginsberg and a bearded friend hit the streets, walked till 6 a.m., talking about their mothers. It was all fried shoes. Like it means nothing. And this week they will do it all over again, by popular demand, at Columbia University in Manhattan...
...Next pad, buddy...
...sets, a demanding and benevolent tyrant, a chair boy always behind him with a chair so that the master could sit down without looking, a mike boy always beside him so that the master could issue orders. A secretary trailed him, pencil at the ready. At home, a handy pad awaited his jotted-down inspirations in every room -even the bathroom...
...rocket engine shoots a jet of gas out of its tail cone, Newton's third law takes over: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Acting in the opposite direction to that of the racing gases, a mighty force lifts the rocket off its launching pad. As long as the engine fires, the rocket climbs faster and faster, obeying Newton's second law: An unbalanced force acting on a body makes it accelerate in the direction of the force . . . When the engine burns out, the rocket continues upward under the control of Newton...